Posts Tagged ‘fragment’

Resonance Assemblage

CATTt, Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink December 4th, 2009

 
 

 
M 07-Dec    Due: Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage” (checkpoint)

     
     
    W 09-Dec    (no class)

        Due: Final Project — (9pm finalized / online)

         
         
         
         
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        W.A.S.T.E.

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink November 15th, 2009

         
        “The next story I wrote was The Crying of Lot 49,
        which was marketed as a ‘novel,’ and in which I seem
        to have forgotten most of what I thought I’d learned up until then.”

        – Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, 1984.

         

        M 16-Nov     Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
                              (through Chapter 3)
                              Pynchon Wiki: Annotations
         
                               (Laura Navia & Audrey Bannon)
         

         
           

        W 18-Nov      Crying of Lot 49 (Chp. 4-5)
                               (Anna Bernstein)
         

         
           

        F 20-Nov      Crying of Lot 49 (Chapter 6)
                              plus Lot 49 Short Film
         
                               (Maria Tamayo)
         

         

         
         
        M 23-Nov    Due: Response 6
         
         
         
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        Algebra of Need

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink September 26th, 2009

         

         
        “The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control.
        In the words of total need: ‘Wouldn’t you?‘ Yes you would” (201).

        – Burroughs, “Testimony Concerning a Sickness” (1960)

         
         
        M 28-Sep      Burroughs: Naked Lunch
                               (“Deposition” pp. 199-205; “And Start West” to “Ordinary Men & Women” pp. 3-101)
                               (James Jacob & Phil Cafaro)

         
                              ”Burroughs’ Cut-up Method

         
         
        W 30-Sep      Naked Lunch (“Islam Inc” through “The Examination” pp. 101-65)        (Anna Bernstein)

         
         
        F 02-Oct      Naked Lunch (”…Pantopon Rose?” through end, pp. 165-96; plus “Post Script” pp. 207-10)
                              (Eric Roe & Paige Miller)